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Update: International District fire, with smoke visible from here

4:42 PM: Just got a call from someone asking about the smoke visible from Harbor Avenue, looking across the bay. There’s a big fire in the International District; the address on the SFD 911 log is 669 S. King Street. Here’s one of the photos SFD has tweeted:

8:39 PM UPDATE: Updated the Times link in the preceding paragraph – they now have a longer story elsewhere on their site. Also of note, West Seattle fire crews are assisting, per radio communication and the online 911 log, including Ladder 11, whose crew we had photographed earlier today assisting police on Genesee Hill, as well as Engine 11 from Highland Park and Engine 32 from The Junction.

Sorry, that was the next story. It’s what I was working on when I found out about the fire because of the phone call mentioned above, and I didn’t check my work before we rushed out to something from which we have now returned. Glad nobody was hurt; I was working in TV the night of the deadly Pang warehouse fire and every big fire brings back those memories.

Last night I was on Wiki looking up the history. At the bottom someone had added that the building was destroyed on 12/24/13. The building was still on fire at that time. Then bouncing between sites I went back to Wiki and that comment was gone. Ghost posting! This morning it is still gone. Another odd Wha Mee piece of the story.